Ukraine

<p>For less than a day a Moscow resident who has recently moved to Odessa collected more than 11,000 UAH in support of Ukrainian army, assisted by her Russian friends. </p>

<p>Few hours ago Elina Svitolina from Odesa defeat French hope Alize Cornet at the French Grand Slam tournaments - the four most important annual tennis events.</p>

<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1.5em; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">May 30, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko officially presented in Odessa the new governor of the region – Mikheil Saakashvili, former Georgian president, who once fought the war with Russia and is now pro-western exile of his country.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 1.6;">The Kyiv Day is usually celebrated in the last weekend of May. So-called Ukraine capital's birthday last two days. Many city residents and tourists attend performances each year. Discover Kyiv Day 2015 with EMPR's photo report.</span></p>

<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1.5em; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili was appointed the governor of the Odesa Oblast, as reported a few hours ago by Ukraine's Minister of Ecology on his Facebook page.</p>

Is the US doing enough to support Ukraine? – was the central theme of discussion at the “Sisyphus in Security: Focus on the U.S.” session at the Kyiv Security Forum.

On 27 May Ilia Yashyn, Russian opposition politician, Head of RPR PARNAS party Moscow bureau presented in Kyiv “Putin. War” report ideated by his colleague Boris Nemtsov.

<p style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">This year Ukraine doesn't participate in Eurovision 2015 as it at war with Russia. Russian proxies, militants and regular armed forces invaded our land, occupied Crimea and eastern regions in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, they have been killing our peaceful citizens and servicemen every day since March 2014.</p>

<p>Today, traditional annual Vyshyvanka Megamarch took place in Odesa. Over 1,000 Odesa residents and guests of the city walked central streets in traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirts vyshyvankas, singing Ukrainian anthem and chanting "Glory to Ukraine! Glory to Heroes!" to commemorate those who had died in Russian-Ukrainian war.</p>

<p>Today, despite the tense situation in eastern Ukraine, 600 km south of the front line and the combat zone, in the southern coastal town of Kobleve the opening ceremony of the first international judo tournament for children "MIR" took place.</p>

<p><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Discover the latest updates from Ukraine for <span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">May 09, 2015 with</span> </span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">EMPR </span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">twitter <span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">digest. </span></span>Starting from January 2014, <a href="https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer;" rel="noopener">EMPR twitter team</a> operates 24/7 to provide in-time info, breaking news, analytics, video and photo reports <span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">for our readers </span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">from all over the World</span>. </span></p>

<p>7 May conducted a first flight with its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-178" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An-178</a> transport, just three weeks after it staged a <a href="news/ukraine-s-antonov-plant-introduced-new-transport-aircraft-an-178" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ceremony</a> in Kyiv.</p>